“Saturday Night Live” New Season Opens with Adam Driver and Musical Guest Kanye West

26 September 2018

Photo: Will Heath/NBC

“Saturday Night Live”

Season Premiere Saturday, September 29 at 11:35 PM ET/PT on NBC

“Saturday Night Live” will premiere its upcoming 44th season. Returning for his second time as host, Emmy Award-nominated Adam Driver recently starred in Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed summer film, BlacKkKlansman. Accompanying Driver on the season premiere will be Grammy Award winner and icon Kanye West, making his seventh appearance as musical guest.

Also, Ego Nwodim has joined Saturday Night Live as a featured player in the iconic late night franchise. Nwodim graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in biology and has been a regular cast member at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles where she performed her one-woman show, Great Black Women … and Then There’s Me.

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